Job description
What we are looking for:
As a Senior Technical Animator, you will be responsible for breathing life into cosmetics for characters and props, leveraging rigging, runtime physics simulations and procedural animation techniques in Unreal Engine. Working closely with the animation and design teams, you will help develop best practices to create amazing characters that scale efficiently across various platforms.
What we will do together:
- Create dynamic character rigs and develop processes and pipelines to make the process more efficient.
- Collaborate with internal and external teams to ensure assets meet creative and technical requirements.
- Create and implement animation blueprints, simulation systems, secondary motion systems for characters and props.
- Work with the animation and tech art teams to troubleshoot and debug animation issues.
- Ensure assets are optimized for performance across multiple platforms.
- Document techniques and workflows and mentor others to build up their skill level.
What you will bring:
- Expertise with rigging and animation tools such as Maya.
- Highly experienced with Unreal Engine’s animation and rigging toolsets, including RigidBodies, Cloth, Anim Nodes, Control Rig, and other systems.
- Familiar with techniques to create efficient and scalable runtime characters and props.
- Highly experienced with optimising and troubleshooting animation systems.
- Researching and developing new techniques, approaches and solutions as required.
- Capable leader and communicator who is comfortable with task prioritization, scoping, and delegation.
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work well in a team environment.
- Proficiency in a scripting language such as Python a plus.
- Experience working on cross-platform games.
- A self-starter with a strong work ethic, a growth mindset, and the ability to work independently
Interested… a bit about Escape Velocity:
Escape Velocity is a team of passionate, talented developers working at a studio that offers excellent benefits and what we believe is a fantastic project. But that doesn’t make us unique. What does make us special? We value the time, energy, and talent of our players and our colleagues. We want every hour spent developing and playing our games to be an incredibly rewarding and worthwhile use of your time. To that end, we are fully remote and support team members nearly anywhere in the world. We prioritize honesty, even when that means sharing bad news. We strive to give everyone autonomy so they can determine how best to work and play, and we care more about what you bring to the game and studio than how many hours you’re clocking. We believe in constant improvement across all areas – from the game itself to our production design – and are constantly re-evaluating how we spend our time to ensure that we’re not wasting yours and we’re all always working on the most important things. Finally (and perhaps most importantly) we’re dedicated to building a culture of play, which not only makes us better game makers, but also strengthens the bonds between us all.
How to apply:
Click apply and complete an application along with a Resume / CV. If we would like to move forward with your application, a member of the Recruiting Team will reach out to you and guide you through our process.
Escape Velocity is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to hiring, promoting, and compensating employees based on their qualifications and demonstrated ability to perform job responsibilities.
Applications will be considered regardless of age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, belief, race, or any other protected category.
